Study On Subjective Evaluation Of Collective Forest Tenure Reform And Behaviors Of Forest Management From Aspects Of Farmers

This new phase of the Collective Forest Tenure Reform (the CFTR) is one of key issues adsorbing much attention in the field of forestry economy and policy in China. The CFTR is aimed to inspire farmers’motivation of forest management, enhance farmers’income from forest management, and promote allocation efficiency of colletive forest resource. This research is conducted to make subjective evaluation of forest tenure reform, to provide countermeasures to deepen collective forest tenure reform, and to impove forest management policy from aspects of fanner, which is meaningful practically.The research is initiated with defining key concepts, such as fanner, behaviors of forest management, and collective forest tenure reform, and constructing theoretically analytical framework and setting up research assumptions based on property right theory, resource economics theory, and fanners’behaviors theory for explanation of the CFTR and fanners’ behaviors of forest management. Secondly, the research concludes that the CFTR is consisted of the Property Right Reform, the Management System Seform, the Transfer System reform, the Taxation and Fee System Reform, and the Compensation System Reform, current forest management modes, and possible impacts cuased by the CFTR to farmers’behavior of forest management by analysis on first-hand data and materials collected in Shaowu city and Youxi county in Fujian province. Thirdly, it is empirically detennined that farmers’subjective evalution results on five concrete reform activities, and figured out factors having significant impact on the results. Fourthly, it is determined that farmers’willingness to participate specific forest management activities, such as Plantation, Thinning, Fertilizing, and Proection, and different impacts cuased by different factors. Fifthly, it is explored that fanners’ evaluation on function of the cooperative, willingness to participate the cooperative, and intention to cooperate at stages of Gaining Loan, Technical Assistance, Purchaing Production factor, Selling Product, Preventing Disease, Fire-proofing, and Getting Logging Quota, and corresponding affecting factors. Finally, suggestions are put forward for perfecting current forest management policy based on the upper research findings and farmers’ demand on policy assistant.The research is featured by a micro-empirical research at farmer level. An analytical framework of "current situation-cuase-countermeasure" is used to contruct whole paper. It is used quantatively analytical methods such as Descriptive Statistic, non-linear regresstion (Binary Logstic Regression Model, and Binary Probit Regression Model), and Backward Regession Model based on data of sampled farmers from field investigation. More specifically, the Binary Logstic Regression Models are used to analyze factor affecting whether fanners have positive evaluation on the CFTR and the cooperative, farmers are willing to partipcate in forest management, and farmers have willingness to participate in cooperate. The Backward Regession Models are used to analyse fanners’ willingness to seek for coopearation at stages of Gaining Loan, Technical Assistance, Purchaing Production factor, Selling Product, Preventing Disease, Fire-proofing, and Getting Logging Quota. The Descriptive Statistic is used to indicate diversity of forest managemet at farmer level. The Data for the study were collected by field survey and collection of second-hand material. TheThe main conclusions of the study include:1) the CFTR plays positive influence to inspire farmers’ motivation of forest management, innovate forest management mode, facilitate cooperation and enhance farmers’ income from forestry;2) the CFTR is consisted of the Property Right Reform, the Management System Seform, the Transfer System reform, the Taxation and Fee System Reform, and the Compensation System Reform, and the differences of farmers’ feature at aspects of demography, resource, economy, forest production characteristic play different influences on the subjective evaluation results;3) forest management at fanners level could be indicate better from aspects of Plantation, Thinning, Fertilizing, and Proection, which also affected differently by fanners’ features, such as demography, resource, economy, forest production characteristic and understanding on foresty institution;4) fanners are differed obviously in terms to participation possibility and evaluation results of the cooperatives, and cooperation willingness at stages of Gaining Loan, Technical Assistance, Purchaing Production factor. Selling Product, Preventing Disease, Fire-proofing, and Getting Logging Quota. Some suggestions are put forward in the end. Firstly, the CFTR should be promoted in further to perfect forest management policy, and then to offer proper institutional support to farmers’ forest management behaviors, help fanner gain higher income from forest management, and promote allocation efficiency of forest resources. Secondly, the administration should keep on elimilating institutions which limit farmers’capability to get higher income and reduce production cost. Finally, laws and regulation about forest management should be improved in further, and financial input and funding assistance should be enlarged to offer fanner more favor.